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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






2. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






3. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






4. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






5. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






6. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






7. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






8. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






9. A component of work performed during the course of a project






10. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






11. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






12. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






13. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






14. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






15. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






16. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






17. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






18. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






19. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






20. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






21. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






22. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






23. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






24. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






25. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






26. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






27. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






28. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






29. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






30. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






31. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






32. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






33. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






34. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






35. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






36. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






37. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






38. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






39. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






40. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






41. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






42. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






43. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






44. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






45. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






46. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






47. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






48. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






49. ACWP






50. Float (total float - free float)